A change in institutional culture is needed to promote responsible scientific behaviour and prevent misconduct. That's unlikely to happen unless money is involved, say Sandra Titus and Xavier Bosch.

Boston College and its Principal Investigators (PIs) are committed to conducting themselves and University activities in accordance with the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and professionalism ...

More training and clear guidelines are favoured as fixes for bad research practices, but a new study suggests that these efforts are wasted if researchers are inherently dishonest. The study published ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Are open methods, open data, and access are essential requirements underlying transparency. But are they enough to establish the integrity of research? How frequent is “research misconduct,” and what ...

University of Nevada, Reno recognizes that responsibility for human research protection is not the sole responsibility of a single office or of the IRB. Rather, this responsibility transcends ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Amid a steady rise in research misconduct allegations over the past ...

Responsible conduct of research applies to all researchers and research staff engaged in scholarly research. The University expects that every academic program and each research advisor/mentor will do ...

While supporting a university research team on a large-scale sociological study, we were tasked with transcribing interview recordings that contained rich, context-heavy narratives, along with names, ...

In total, Dana-Farber has agreed to pay $15 million as part of the settlement of a lawsuit that David filed last year under the False Claims Act of the US. David’s payment is a whistleblower’s share.

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